This week’s Mental Sunshine is really simple; something you can probably do right now. It’s really easy, but something that can help your body to release feel-good chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. These can help to lift your mood, boost your energy and reconnect with feelings of happiness and comfort. So what is it? Put

How is your internal weather these days? Is there much mental sunshine going on in your head? For this week’s Mental Sunshine I want to talk about the idea of focusing outwards, in order to improve our inner world. It sounds counterintuitive, right? Surely if I’m feeling rubbish, I need to focus on myself if

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to talk to you about the concept of “forced consistency” I know that doesn’t sound very “sunshiny” but bear with me! I saw someone on social media the other day say that when you’re consistent, your days all look the same – but if you’re not consistent, your

September can feel like “back to school” time – even if your kids have grown up and left school Shops and businesses everywhere are promoting “back to school” or “back to uni” deals and there’s a buzz of people going back to a new school, new uni, new year of study. For this week’s Mental

For this week’s Mental Sunshine I want to suggest something else that sounds a bit silly. And feels a bit silly the first time you try it… But it’s super quick and there is some science behind it, so bear with me! This week we’re going to try cyclic sighing. Cyclic sighing is a specific breathing

Can you believe we’re in September already? It’s “back to school” season – I often find that even people who don’t have children heading back to school or university this month still feel that “fresh start” feeling as the season begins to change. For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to make what might seem

Each week my aim is to provide you with a simple tip Something small you can do that will hopefully bring some more sunshine into your day. I can’t decide if this week’s tip is a really obvious one, or a really not-obvious one… Let me know what you think! This week’s tip is to

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to suggest something that will probably sound absolutely bonkers. I love the tips that sound ridiculous, because often even just the thought of them makes me smile! This week’s tip is to try walking backwards. I don’t mean you should attempt to do your morning commute backwards; that

Whether you’re having a great week, or a less-than-great one – let’s see if we can improve on that shall we! That’s what these weekly emails are about – just increasing the level of Mental Sunshine in your life where we can. This week I want to talk about morning breathwork, after hearing Julia Bradbury

The UK appears to be having a record breaking summer, with large parts of England in drought. We’ve just had our third or fourth heatwave and I think a lot of people are looking forward to going back to moaning about the rain! Why am I talking about the weather in an email about Mental